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SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering avi... - SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator, remembered for his novella The Little Prince (1943). A.L.S., Antoine, four pages, 8vo, n.p. (Geneva) n.d. (23rd July 1919), to his cousin, Mademoiselle Bernardine de Menthon, in French. Saint-Exupery writes a charming letter, announcing that he is in Switzerland ('Helvetie') and is very happy, explaining that he has travelled by bicycle and boat and that if he had an afternoon free he would come and visit her at Thonon les Bains or Allinges, 'Mais.....vous savez ou ne savez plutot pas que je suis.....(chut!) que je suis admissible (chut! chut!) et que donc il faut que je travaille ferme (pour me faire d'ailleurs recaler a l'oral)' (Translation: 'But…..you know, or rather you don't know, that I am……(hush!), that I am admissible (hush! hush!) and that therefore I have to work hard (to get myself to fail the oral)'), and further writing 'J'ai, vous penser bien, tout oublie depuis novembre et comme a cette date la, vu la lucidite extraordinaire que donne un bourrage intensif de mathematiques. Je parlais deja a mon examinateur de la ''Culture des elephants au congo''. Je me demande avec effroi ce que je vais lui raconter cette fois-ci' (Translation: 'I have, thinking you well, forgotten everything since November and, as on that date, saw the extraordinary lucidity that an intensive jamming of mathematics gives. I have already talked to my examiner about the ''Culture of elephants in the Congo''. I wonder with dread what I'm going to tell him this time'). Saint-Exupery adds that if he had time he would copy out some verses for his cousin, but his boat leaves in fifteen minutes and he doesn't want to miss it, also remarking that the Swiss have not changed and observing that they have an 'accent empreint d'un charme si indefinssable et si rare' (Translation: 'accent imbued with a charm so indefinable and so rare'), In a postscript he declares that he does not have her address with him and the safe receipt of his letter will be entirely down to the level of intelligence deployed by the postal workers. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Saint-Exupery. Some very light, extremely minimal age wear, VG Bernardine de Menthon (1900-1981) Cousin and friend of Saint-Exupery, who was also known as 'Dolly' to her family and friends.